After last year's rules changes, 70percentt of the world's elite gymnasts started using the move as an easy way to pick up five-tenths of a point.
As soon as you know you want to be a gymnast, start taking lessons right away so that your body learns flexibility from an early age.
Daisy-May Demetre, seven, from Birmingham, a keen gymnast, started modelling six months ago after her father sent photos to Zebedee Management, which specialises in clients with disabilities.
Wells said to me, "Look at this," and we watched as she strode toward the kitchen with her arms down, like a gymnast starting a run-up.
The former gymnast started snowboarding when she was just 10.
Prompted by a request from the Olympic committee, citing "information that was concerning enough," the world governing body of gymnastics started an inquiry last week into the ages of the Chinese gymnasts.
If you want to be a gymnast, you can start working on your flexibility right now.
I was a pretty late start as far as gymnasts go.
Soldati, 30, the oldest competitor at the trials, is a former gymnast who did not start diving seriously until a dozen years ago.
